Educating physicians about ventilation-perfusion scanning as an alternative to CT for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolisms led to a 23 percent decrease in patient exposure, according to a study ...

MDCT pulmonary angiography is replacing the ventilation-perfusion lung scan to diagnose suspected pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients, say researchers from Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

Approximately one in six patients hospitalized for a first episode of syncope have a pulmonary embolism, a new study shows, with the prevalence of pulmonary embolism highest among individuals without ...